About

New York City Opera’s VOX is an annual performance forum for new opera compositions.
The project strives:

•To demonstrate the rich diversity of and potential for contemporary American opera.

•To connect composers and librettists with producers across the country, offering the means and the exposure to bring each work to a full stage realization.

•To develop individual composer’s and librettist’s skills through active engagement with a professional orchestra and artists.

•To capture the imagination and whet the appetites of the American opera community: composers, librettists, impresarios, funders, and audiences.

New York City Opera’s VOX is an exciting annual festival of new operas that offers American composers and librettists the opportunity to hear their works with a full orchestra and excellent artists. Every year, VOX presents up to twelve new, previously un-produced works from both emerging and established composers in orchestra readings that are free and open to the public.

For the last half century, New York City Opera has been a leader in the development of American opera. City Opera has an unmatched repertory of American works including those of over 50 American composers and shaped an American aesthetic for opera through the world premieres of more than 25 American operas.

To date, the festival has presented excerpts from 70 new operas with more than 30 going on to full productions — four at City Opera and the remainder at other opera companies, including Houston Grand Opera, Los Angeles Opera, Washington National Opera, Michigan Opera Theater and the Sante Fe Opera.